LIVERPOOL: Sakshi and Thokchom Sanamacha Chanu won their respective bouts in contrasting styles after Pawan Bartwal provided India a winning start in the World Boxing Championships campaign in Liverpool, UK, on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Bartwal got the better of Brazil\u2019s Michael Douglas Trindade, a Paris Olympian, in a close men\u2019s 55kg bout as the strong Indian team made a good start in the competition.<\/p>\n
Sakshi continued the strong start as she outclassed her Ukrainian opponent Viktoriia Shkeul, winning the opening round 5-0 before sealing the contest in the second round with an impressive RSC (Referee Stopped Contest) victory on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Chanu posted a hard-fought victory in her opening bout as she overcame Denmark\u2019s Ditte Frostholm with a 4-1 verdict to advance to the next round in the women\u2019s 70kg category on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Their wins came after 10 Indian boxers, including Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain (women\u2019s 70kg), two-time World Championship medallist Nikhat Zareen (women\u2019s 51kg), medal contender Hitesh Gulia (men\u2019s 70kg), and Abhinash Jamwal (men\u2019s 65kg) got first-round byes, thus avoiding tricky opponents early in the competition.<\/p>\n
Bartwal displayed his boxing acumen under pressure in the third and final round, keeping his Brazilian opponent at bay and impressing the judges with his punches to win the first-round bout 3:2.<\/p>\n
The two boxers were deadlocked after the first two rounds, with Trindade nullifying Bartwal\u2019s advantage in the second round.<\/p>\n
India has fielded a 20-member contingent at the inaugural World Championships, being held under the aegis of the World Boxing Council, a recently formed international governing body for boxing, and is looking to underline its growing stature in world boxing.<\/p>\n
While Gulia, Jamwal, and Lovlina have a bye in the opening round, Nikhat Zareen will take on Jennifer Lozana of the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVERPOOL: Sakshi and Thokchom Sanamacha Chanu won their respective bouts in contrasting styles after Pawan Bartwal provided India…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,67339,67338,82],"class_list":["post-121188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chanu","tag-sakshi","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}